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Win The Stock Market With Crowdsourced Advice From New App Robinhood
Most people are too scared to seriously play the stock market. Few amateurs know enough to confidently invest on their own. Luckily, free iOS app Robinhood launches today to put crowdsourced finance...
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Robinhood App Will Offer Zero-Commission Stock Trades Thanks To $3M Seed From...
Why pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 to trade a stock when you could do it for free? That premise helped mobile investment app startup Robinhood raise the $3 million seed round led by Index Ventures it...
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Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta
Soon, RobinHood will let anyone buy and sell stocks for free instead of having to pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 per transaction. Today RobinHood begins inviting its 160,000 waitlisters to download its...
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Robinhood Raises $13M To Democratize Stock Market With Zero-Commission...
Half a million people have already signed up for Robinhood’s unlaunched zero-fee stock trading service. Now the startup has raised $13 million to hire talent to make its app totally secure so it can...
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Robinhood Launches Zero-Fee Stock Trading App
Why pay E*Trade $8 to buy or sell a stock when you can trade for free on Robinhood? After two years of development, $16 million in funding, and 500,000 waitlist signups, Robinhood finally hits the iOS...
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Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global
In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of...
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
We’re back from Disrupt NY, where we stayed up all night for the Hackathon, conducted numerous on-stage interviews with tech figures and heard from hundreds of startups on the products they’re...
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No-Fee, Stock-Trading App Robinhood Is Now On Android
Zero-fee, stock-trading app Robinhood is now on Android. The app launched on iOS late last year and has grown to “hundreds of thousands of customers” and made over $1 billion in trades on the...
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Introducing Disrupt TV Live From Disrupt SF
We’re just a week away from TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, and the TechCrunch video team has a packed schedule: broadcasting interviews, updates and all sorts of other great startup action live from the...
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Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev On Stock Market Turmoil And Eliminating Trading Fees
This might not seem like the best time to be running a startup focused on stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s always companies...
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Stock Trading Was Expensive And Ugly. Robinhood’s App Makes It Free And Pretty
Robinhood steals stock trading from rich guys in suits and gives it to normal people who couldn’t afford to pay $7 per transaction. The zero-fee stock trading app is bonafide hit. Less than a year...
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Robinhood Gives Zero-Fee Stock Trading To Other Apps
What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developers can bake its zero-commission stock trading into their...
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Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Finalists
After a multitude of worthy nominations, TechCrunch is proud to announce the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards finalists. Take a peek below at the full list of finalists for each award category. There are...
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Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Best New Startup Of 2015
The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner, and some of the best and brightest startups, companies and leaders are vying for the chance to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12...
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Meet The Apps Vying For The Crunchie For Best Mobile App Of 2015
The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner. On February 8, some of your favorite startups, entrepreneurs and investors will make their way to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House for the...
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Robinhood Ditches 3-Day Wait, Fronts New Users $1000 To Buy Stocks
The most annoying part of zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood was that when you signed up, there was a 3-day delay before money you deposited appeared in your account. Luckily, today the startup is...
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Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to talk fighting the establishment at...
When an app wins an Apple Design Award and has hundreds of thousands of people on its waiting list, people are going to want to know how exactly the founders did it. So, TechCrunch is excited to...
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RobinHood’s chief executive on the importance of design in fintech
In this podcast, chief executive Baiju Bhatt discusses what it was about their initial value proposition that made so many users convert, and the integral role design plays at RobinHood. Read More
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Robinhood preps for zero-fee stock trading launch in China
Robinhood will bring its free U.S. stock trading app to the world, and just announced one of the first countries will be China. To prepare, today it launched a Chinese-language version in the U.S. and...
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Stock picking simplified with these apps
Investing in the stock market made easy…That’s the goal of these apps, which make investing more convenient and help you keep tabs on the market updates. And you don’t have to be a finance whiz to...
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